Musings on the End of the World
In the wake of last week’s ten-ton meteor exploding over Russia with the force of an atomic bomb, as well as the asteroid that silently glided past Earth within about 17,000 miles, I’m starting to wonder about the next “oh-my-gosh-the-world-is-going-to-end” ordeal. In just my lifetime, there’s been the whole Y2K incident (not that I was really aware of that happening considering I was six years old, but in any case), multiple threats of rapture and apocalypse, and of course the…